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Should Dave cut his pre-prepared insults?

Should Dave cut his pre-prepared insults?

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Can he move from a party to a national leader? According to Times’s Danny Finkelstein his old close colleague, the new Downing Street Director of Strategy, Andrew Cooper, is planning to tell Cameron that he should aim to be “be a national leader, rather than a party politician especially in the Commons.” But how realistic is this? Could Cameron really pull his punches in the way Cooper is said to want? As James Forsyth notes on the CoffeeHouse blog: “Nearly…

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What does the future hold for David Miliband?

What does the future hold for David Miliband?

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Does he still hanker after the leadership? One of the slightly odd features of this afternoon’s Cameron statement on Libya was that not so long after Ed Miliband gave his response his brother, the former foreign secretary, was called. The elder brother made a very statesman-like contribution from the unfamiliar position of the back benches and for a moment I thought he was going to upstage Ed. He didn’t and kept his point brief. But what is going to happen…

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Will EdM’s move be more helpful to YES than to NO?

Will EdM’s move be more helpful to YES than to NO?

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Guardian Should Clegg remain invisible for the entire campaign? The Guardian is reporting this morning that Ed Miliband has told the YES campaign that he will not share a platform with Nick Clegg because he believes that the Lib Dem leader is so toxic to Labour supporters that it could affect the outcome. Apparently the Labour leader is happy to share platforms with other prominent Lib Dems – Ashdown/William/Kennedy etc – but not the leader. Given the way that Labour…

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Is Kellner right – Labour should be polling better?

Is Kellner right – Labour should be polling better?

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Should the lead be 10 percent plus? The president of YouGov and well-known Labour supporter, Peter Kellner, has put the cat amongst the pigeons with an article this afternoon saying that his party should be doing substantially better in the polls. He points to the current 32% – 54% gap in YouGov’s government approve/disapprove numbers and suggests that current conditions are ones “in which the main opposition party should be miles ahead, not a measly five points. ” This is…

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Nick and Ed get YouGov leadership ratings’ boosts

Nick and Ed get YouGov leadership ratings’ boosts

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David Cameron David Cameron “doing well/badly” (YouGov) All (last week) CON voters LAB voters LD voters Well 45(+2) 95 10 71 Badly 48(-1) 4 88 25 Ed Miliband Ed Miliband “doing well/badly” (YouGov) All (last week) CON voters LAB voters LD voters Well 37 (+4) 16 72 28 Badly 43 (-1) 65 16 57 Nick Clegg Nick Clegg “doing well/badly” (YouGov) All (last week) CON voters LAB voters LD voters Well 34(+6) 68 8 79 Badly 57(-5) 26 88 20…

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Do the blues need to do more to de-toxify the brand?

Do the blues need to do more to de-toxify the brand?

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Ipsos-MORI What do we think of the MORI leader/party “like/dislike” numbers? One of Ipsos-MORI’s “hardy annuals” is this series of questions contrasting the like/dislike of the three main party leaders with voters views of their parties. This is the first time since the general election and formation of the coalition government that these questions have been put and the summary of responses is featured above. In terms of likeability Cameron comes out top with Clegg in second place and Miliband…

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At last we have it – the George and Ed show?

At last we have it – the George and Ed show?

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Who’ll prevail – the strategist or the tactician? It’s been a long time in the making but the George and Ed Show is finally under way. It should have started, of course, in Gordon Brown’s post-EU election re-shuffle in June 2009. Balls was offered the job and was so certain he was moving he had a leaving party at his old department. The incumbent at the Treasury, Alistair Darling, however, refused to budge and a weakened Brown could not force…

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Is it really an Ed to Ed battle for policy?

Is it really an Ed to Ed battle for policy?

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Where does the Shadow Cabinet reshuffle leave Labour? Separating the meat from the chaff is one of the most critical skills in any form of betting and there’s certainly plenty of chaff in politics. Some events blaze briefly before dying to nothing, others are only ever distractions, a few matter. In the last two days, there’ve been three potentially big stories but only one is likely to have long-lasting implications. Blair’s reappearance at the Chilcot enquiry is already old news….

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